Improvement in hat-pelting machines



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TO ALL WHOM IT'MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JEAN FRANCOIS BADOYE, of the city and State of NewYork, have invented, made, and 'applied to use a certain new and usefulImprovement in Machinery for Felting Hats; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to he a full, clear, and exact description of the saidinvention, reference being had to the an'nexed drawing, making part ofthis specification, whereini Figur-e 1 is an elevation of' my machine,and

Figure 2 is a cross-section of the same at line a; :e of fig, l.

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The object of my inventon is to felt thehat hodies in hot water bymachiiery, instead of by hand in the t usual manner.

My invention consists in a swinging-worker or 'hand," that is fitted topress upoirand work the felt hat bodies while rolled up, in a mannersimilar to the hand process. I construct the worker so that it swings ona rock-shefit above, and pendulous arms and weights aid in maintainingthe motion, and the hot-water kettle and its inclined sides are soformed, in connection with the worker, that as the worker rolls over theroll containing' the hat bodesit rises as the roll passes away from thehot water, producing an increased pressure and squeezing 'operation thatfelts the'hats similarly to the hand process.

In the 'drawing a is a frame, of suitable size and strength; b is ahot-water kettle, of any desired or usual character, heated by fire orsteam; a a are the inclined sides, extending from the kettle to the edgeof the machine The portions of said inclines that come over the kettleare formed of metal plates ol d, leaving openings between their edgesand the bar e, running lengthwise through between the plates d d. Therock-shaft f is hung in journalboxes in the frame a, and provided withpendulous arms g, with weights at their ende. The

movement is limited by stop h, so that the rock-shaft cannot be turnedtoo far. Through the rock-shaft are mortises receiving the slding-a msIc, to the lower ends of which the workers l are attaehed. m is aeross-har extending from one pendulous arm,"g\to the other, and passingthrough elongated mortises in the arms k, so as to allow of their beingraised with the workers Z to introduce the goods to he felted.

The sheets of felt or hat bodies are folded up of a size`adapted to themachine, and are either rolled up alone or upon awooden or India-rubberroller, eare being taken to cross the pieces of-felt, so that thedirection in which the fib'es are laid shall vary, and this is to beborne in mind every time the material is changedhetween the respectivefelting Operations, the same as in fe'lting by hand. The material to befelted is to be rolled up with a coarse cloth, and properly tied, andplaced in the machine under the worker, which is to be lowered, andweighted with suficient weight in its hoX-shaped upper surface to givethe required pressure. As the worker is vihrated by hand, or other powerapplied to the pendulous arms or rook shaft, the roll t of the materialto he felted is rolled up first one incline and then the other, thewater being alternately expelled and imbibed, and the felting operationis performed -similarly to the hand process, hut much more rapidly unduniformly, in consequence of the hand or worker acting upon the entiresurface of the roller, and rising and falling bythe arms k slidingthrough the mortises in the rock-shaft i Several of 'these workers mayhe mount'ecl on one rock-shaft in a row over a long kettle. v What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Pate'nt, is

The-workers Z, mounted on arms that pass through mortisein therock-shaftf, in combination with the kettle 6 and inclines, forOperating in the manner specified upo'n a roll containing the materialsto be felted.

In witness whereof' I have hereunto set my signature this seventeenthday of January, 18671'.

J. F. BADOYE.

Witnesses: i

GEO. D. WALKER, Cms. H. SMITH.

